The 5-5-5 Plan

Week 46 – 5-5-5 Plan – Theme – Problems

 

Monday:  This week’s theme is problems – because we all have them – the world seems to be focused on them – so how do we deal/think about/ move through them –

I’ve found that what I focus on becomes reality so we’re not focusing on problems per se, we are focusing on overcoming problems – on learning ways to work through and be triumphant over problems -

 

Today’s quote is from George Matthew Adams who said, “Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs- or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!”

 

            Word: Zenith – From the three “A” words meaning “highest point” to a “Z” word of the same meaning. This noun originally had an astronomical sense of the highest point of a celestial body and comes from Arabic, the language of many great early astronomers.

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!

 

Tuesday:

            Quote: Malcolm Forbes said “When things are bad we take a bit of comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”

 

            Word: Pinnacle – another word for “highest point” as well as a common term for a mountain peak – sometimes for problems we feel far away from the pinnacle.

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!

 

Wednesday:

            Quote: Frank Crane said, “Nobody’s problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.”

 

            Word: Bathos – (BAY- thoss) This singular noun, coming from the Greek word for “deep,” refers to a literary effect that is overly commonplace or grossly sentimental. Less talented authors unintentionally fall into it, but parodists or satirists may seek it out for effect. (It neatly rhymes with “pathos,” the Greek word for feeling.”

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!

 

 

Thursday: Note: Jeri had her baby! So she called in and Kasey Kay was on the phone with us! What a gift! What a blessing!

 

            Quote: M.D. Garbrick said, “Should one look through a red glass at a white lily, he would seem to see a red lily. But there would be no red lily. So it is with humanity’s problems. They consist of false mental pictures.”

 

            Word: Abject – This adjective describes either a low condition or status or describes something most contemptible or most wretched. Appropriately, it comes from the Latin meaning “thrown aside.”

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!

 

Friday:

            Quote: William F. Halsey said our last quote of the week on problems and he said, “All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.”

 

            Word: Consummate – Note the pronunciation; we’re talking about the adjective form, not the verb (KAHN sum ate). The adjective describes the highest, most complete or perfect form of some quality, whether positive or negative.

 

You Create Your Day by the way You Think! Be Present!

Go make it a Magnificent Day!